[单项选择]24 China has the world's largest telecom subscriber base, ______ . A. with almost 500 million mobile phones B. with almost 500 million fixed-line phones C. with almost 500 million subscribers of both fixed-line and mobile phones

[单项选择]But the world has not yet found ways of storing enough water to satisfy all these important needs，not even in west countries like England．
A. 但是，这个世界还没有在像英国这样的西方国家找到储存足够水的方法来满足所有这些重要的需求。
B. 但是，这个世界还没有找到储存足够多水的方法，不能满足像英国这样的西方国家的所有这些重要的需求。
C. 但是，这个世界还没有找到储存足够多水的方法来满足所有这些重要的需要，即使在英国。
D. 但是，这个世界还没有找到储存足够多的水的方法，以满足所有这些重要的需求，甚至在像英国这样的西方国家也是一样。

[单项选择]As the world has moved into a scientific age, the origin of herbal medicine in many countries remains shrouded in mystery and often sounds fantastic to those modern science.
A. (A) trained in
B. (B) averse to
C. (C) unprepared for
D. (D) beholden to
E. (E) neutral toward

[单项选择]Each person in the world has a(n)______ personality. They are different from one another.
A. only
B. sole
C. unique
D. one

[单项选择]China's rapid development in the telecom industry has played a/an ______ role on the w0orld telecom industry.

[单项选择]Which of the following world organizations has the weakest leadership according to the passage
A. The International Labor Organization.
B. The Food and Agriculture Organization.
C. The World Health Organization.
D. The World Bank.

[单项选择]It is universally acknowledged that China has achieved tremendous successes in family planning．
A. 人们普通赞赏中国在家庭计划方面达到了宏伟的目标。
B. 人们一致承认中国在家庭计划方面取得了巨大的成绩。
C. 人们一致公认中国的计划生育取得了极大的成绩。
D. 世界上流行着一种看法，中国政府对每个家庭的成功起到巨大的作用。

[单项选择]China has nearly 200 million working women, constituting one-sixth of her total population.
They have the right to participate in social production, therefore gaining economic independence and equal status in the society and at home.

[单项选择]Since China has a large population, the popularization of private cars will only bring serious social problems.
A. 自从中国人口变多以来，私家车的数量只是一个不太严重的社会问题。
B. 自从中国人口变多以来，私家车的流行会带来很多严重的社会问题。
C. 由于中国人口众多，私家车的数量只会带来社会问题。
D. 由于中国人口众多，所以私家车的普及只会带来严重的社会问题。

[单项选择]China has been following the foreign policy to develop relations with other countries on the ______ of the five principles of peaceful co-existence.
A. basis
B. base
C. account
D. foundation

[单项选择]The collapse of the World Trade Centre has put US economy in a difficult ______.
A. occasion
B. case
C. situation
D. background

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Text 2 The World Wide Web has been steadily creating a widespread surge in social capital through E-mail conversations, chat rooms, newsgroups, and e-zones. These ongoing connections are not an underground phenomenon, but a mainstream movement that is rapidly overwhelming traditional business models, according to the authors of another recent book, The Cluetrain Manifesto. "Our longing for the Web is rooted in the deep resentment we feel towards being managed," writes co-author David Weinberger, a columnist and commentator on the Web’s effect on business. The Cluetrain Manifesto argues that knowledge workers are finding it intolerable that their employers require them to speak in artificial "business voices". The Web has become the ideal alternative: a public place where people can converse in their "authentic voices", outside of an organization’s official communications channel. Some of the social capital generated by these indepe
A. they will not be managed and directed by others.
B. they call speak whatever they want.
C. they are free to choose their own business partner.
D. they can have a person-to-person communication.